Just think how smooth freeway driving would be if the SL was 55 and strictly enforced

"Laura...";

Have you ever correlated rates of velocity with following distances?

Douglas A. Willinger
Takoma Park Highway Design Studio
http://www.HighwaysAndCommunities.com

DNC_TN wrote:

> On 1 Dec 2005 06:09:03 -0800, "Larry Bud" >
> wrote:
>
>
>>laura bush - VEHICULAR HOMICIDE wrote:
>>
>>>If it was 55 then practically no one would do less than that and if
>>>speeding got you some jail time and a DL suspension then no one would
>>>do more. It would be highway heaven with everyone driving the same
>>>speed. No jams and no crashes.
>>
>>You'd have MORE traffic jams because you'd have more cars on the
>>freeway at any one time.
>>
>>Traffic jams are cause by traffic load, nothing more, nothing less. A
>>freeway can accomodate a certain number of cars at any one time.
>>Almost literally 1 more car than that load, and you get the accordion
>>effect.
>>
>>But don't let facts get in your way.
>
>
> So based on what you said, why not force people to do NO LESS than 100
> mph on the highway? Then the chance of wrecks and traffic jams would
> be near zero, right?
>
> Are you also one of those people I hear saying that selt belts cut
> people's heads off in high speed crashes?
>
> Do you also believe in the "thrown clear" theory that it's better to
> not wear a seatbelt so you can be "thrown clear" and avoid injury?
>
> I've heard people say this is why I ask.
>
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As for everything else, this ignorant right wing cocksucker doesn't
know a ****ing thing about it.



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Laura Bush murdered her boy friend wrote:
> Sir Ray wrote:
>
> > >>The speed limit argument has to do with the efficiency of the engine at certain speeds/gears. Back when the 55mph speed limit was introduced in the US, that was the most efficient speed for the majority of cars at the gear required to drive at highway speeds. It's since been bumped to 60-70mph most places around the country because cars engines have improved (since the '50's, but not much more). Thus, driving 20% faster isn't merely a matter of being 20% less fuel efficient (otherwise your argument would follow that driving at 45mph would be ideal -- and it's not). It's about driving at the speed that MOST cars are most efficient because of the gears in transmissions.
>
> That's a lie and you know it. As long as you're in top gear slower
> gives better gas mileage due to less wind resistance. BTW - if you
> could read, you'd see that this thread isn't about gas mileage anyway.
> The claim is that a 55 mph SL strictly enforced would result in
> everyone driving the same speed and traffic would thus flow more
> smoothly and safely.

Here's a link that YOU provided in another thread SUPPORTING a 55mph
speed limit that directly refutes this idiotic claim:

http://www.publicpurpose.com/hwy-fatal57+.htm

Can you count to eleven without taking your shoes off? I'm not joking.

I thought it was interesting that when I first came upon this thread in
my newsreader's summary pane, it read (all on one line):

Just think how smooth freeway driving would be if... Laura Bush
murdered her boyfriend